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Chapter Five - The Importance of Human Rights

ENGINEERING IMMUNITY

The foundation documents of America are designed to inoculate our population against the crime that is oppressive "law."

The operation of human rights is another way to describe our system of immunity. The entire notion of human rights was presented in the political arena as a system of immunity against the disease of oppression by government.

Our Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights list the limits of behavior to which any population can be subject, yet still retain their fundamental humanity.

Our basic human rights are actually human needs. Our rights to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, privacy, free speech, free religion, free assembly, and freedom from involuntary servitude are exactly what we each need in order to keep the Human part of our animal bodies alive.

As long as the Human Nature can remain intact in the animal homo sapiens body, there is no space for the disease of criminal reaction, which is inhuman.

Our immune systems of emotional discharge and intelligent cognition toward effective choice are an integral part of our true Human Nature, fully operating in each person from the moment of birth. The Human Nature breaks down when there is an abridgement of the human rights of that person.

Our basic Human Rights give each of us the ability to recover from a destructive episode as soon as it has happened. And this prevents the subconscious warehousing of injuries that provides the foundations for criminal compulsions.

Applied generally and universally, legal Human Rights do away with society's disease of violence against individual persons by government or major institution.  Applied immediately and personally, Human Rights do away with each person's disease of violence against person by person.

Free speech and expression allow full discharge of any injury.  Free assembly allows joining company with others who support the healing process and are maintaining a high degree of health themselves.  And rights to private property and privacy allow ejection of any trespassers who interfere with the process of recovery.  Freedom of worship and religion allow each human to do whatever they find useful to reconnect with their entire Human Self.

Liberty allows us to position ourselves socially or logistically to avoid exposure to people who present recurrent danger.  Destructive episodes for one become instructive episodes for many when our recovery systems are intact.

One may say, "well, this immune system made of human rights isn't working then.  For we Americans have our Constitutional rights.  And general crime still wages on".

But do we all have full human rights?  Most of us can recite that as Americans, "we have the rights to freedom of speech and assembly."  How do we know?  Well, the Constitution tells us so.  But does that mean that we are truly exercising our rights?  No it does not.

The rights to assembly and free speech that we mean when we say these phrases often have to do only with providing immunity to oppression by government.  We think the rights to free assembly are expressed in mass demonstration in front of the capitol building.  But that is only a very small part of it.

The Constitution only tells us that we need not allow our Federal or State governments to create mandates that interfere with our rights. By way of our Constitution we are allowed to challenge in court any statute that interferes with our rights. And things are set up such that we are supposed to win in that court, overthrowing any unconstitutional "law", if we are correct in our claim.

This legal option to challenge an imposed legality is only a small part of fully exercising real human rights in a real and immediate way. Preventing the government from preventing us to meet our human needs is very different from actually doing what it takes to daily meet our basic human needs.

We have our rights when we exercise our rights, when we use them . . . when we use the behaviors that the rights describe, during every day.  We meet our needs for free assembly and free speech when we get together with others and speak truthfully what is on our minds.

We need to apply our Human Rights not just in the political arena but in every arena, in our households, in our communities, and inside of ourselves.  For these are the places wherein most of the destructive episodes we face are taking place.

Any abridgement by anybody of our basic human rights, not just by government itself, is a crime.  And the only true crimes against persons are abridgements of their basic human rights.

Being subject to murder is a violation of the right to life.  Being subject to assault is a violation of the right to be secure in one's person.  Being subject to burglary is a violation of the right to be secure in one's house and one's effects.

This is consistent with our model of crime as disease.  Biologically, we can say that anything that interferes with one's health or well being is a violation of that person's privacy.  Bacteria trespass when they invade the body, violating privacy.  Viral disease overthrows the genetic Constitution of a living body.  Crime and disease both attack the well being of a body.

Applied human rights are immunities against the disease of oppression by anybody, not just by organized government. The immunities we (the people) are most profoundly lacking now are immunities against destructive episodes by people we live with, by people we know, or perhaps by strangers on the street.

We often don't apply our human rights within our personal life. In great measure, we don't speak freely.  Instead - many people say what they think others want to hear.  Most of us at least leave out much of what we actually think, when we speak, for fear of disapproval or reprisal.

Many of us don't have free assembly.  Instead - we are isolated from peer companionship or from membership in a supportive group of friends.  We have to drive many miles or call "long distance" to access people we feel "close" to.

Few of us have true access to privacy.  The demands of our jobs or family members don't give us a chance to be alone or to act as an independent agent.

And remarkably few are completely free from involuntary servitude. Even the self-employed are subject to drudgery.  Even the unemployed are subject to household chores and routines that they don't like to do.

Just as human rights (when applied and exercised) allow immunity to government oppression, applied human rights at a personal level can allow immunity to interpersonal oppression within the home and community.

With applied human rights, the problem of assault within the family is something that can be handled without blaming anyone and without punishing anyone.  Using free speech and expression and free assembly, one can recover from personal assault.  Using liberty and privacy, one can re-position oneself in true safety.

The situation of fully operating human rights is the stable compound we can affirmatively measure in order to prevent the diseases of criminal behavior to take hold.

Establishing the situation of operating human rights for every person, here now, in the home and in the community is our way to stop fostering crime.  This is the Justice we can establish.  This is the condition of continuing improvement in the quality of life for everyone.

Who will do this for us?  Is it the responsibility of government to establish the norm of needs met, for every person, for every basic Human Right?

The only responsibility our government has - in the establishment of this Justice - is to hold itself back from imposing mandates that would interfere with us claiming Justice for ourselves. And this, government does, to the best of their ability and reason, right now.

This establishment of true Justice is our project, yours and mine. This experiment of America is our experiment to continue. This is our Constitution, this is our Bill of Rights. As Citizen of these United States, every one of us has exactly as much power and resource as  any one of us needs to bring about a new America.

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